- Mar 2022
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www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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quarter of the key nutrients used in European food production come from Russia.
Sorld is dangerously dependent on an aggressor nation’s supply of fertilizer.
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www.democracynow.org www.democracynow.org
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Europe has been cowering for two decades in response to Putin’s constant provocations because it depends on his oil and gas in order to keep warm through the winter. And even now the U.S. and the EU are unable to take what would be the most devastating economic step, embargoing Putin’s oil and gas in Russia, because they fear that the price of gas will go up enough that American support for doing anything about the Ukraine will evaporate.
Dependency on fossil fuel of authoritarian regimes has major political consequences.
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- Feb 2022
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Local file Local file
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Starosielski (2021) - The Politics of Cable Supply from the British Empire to Huawei Marine - https://is.gd/8LgG2R - urn:x-pdf:dce28e61ffb8c3b2ecc2b99241b1d22a
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- Jun 2021
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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the Guardian. “A Victim of Its Own Success: How Taiwan Failed to Plan for a Major Covid Outbreak,” June 7, 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/07/a-victim-of-its-own-success-how-taiwan-failed-to-plan-for-a-major-covid-outbreak.
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- May 2021
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Protect precious scientific collaboration from geopolitics. (2021). Nature, 593(7860), 477–477. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01386-0
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- Feb 2021
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Time. ‘The Great Reset: How to Build a Better World Post-COVID-19’. Accessed 19 February 2021. https://time.com/collection/great-reset/.
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- Apr 2018
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www.economist.com www.economist.com
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The alternative, of a regulatory patchwork, would make it harder for the West to amass a shared stock of AI training data to rival China’s.
Fascinating geopolitical suggestion here: Trans-Atlantic GDPR-like rules as the NATO of data privacy to effectively allow "the West" to compete against the People's Republic of China in the development of artificial intelligence.
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- Jun 2016
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www.developmentideas.info www.developmentideas.info
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What is development? How does it happen? How have ideas on development changed since the Second World War? This study guide to International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects will help dig deeper into these questions. Each chapter features a summary of the main conclusions, discussion questions, and suggested readings. The Study Guide Quick Finder is at the bottom of each page.
If you work in international development? If you are interested in learning more about the history and evolution of the thinking driving international cooperation. This is a site for you.
The site offers the pre-print version of an IDRC publication entitled International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects, edited by Bruce Currie-Alder, Ravi Kanbur, David M. Malone, and Rohinton Medhora.
This is an interesting book brings together the voices of over ninety authors, which include international development practitioners, experts and policy makers.
The site contains a study guide comprised by eight sections of the book, each with a number of chapters. Ideal to use for beginner or advanced courses in universities and as reference for day to day work in the field.
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